Iconic South Windsor Company Sold In $5.44 Million Deal

SOUTH WINDSOR, CT — A local business which evolved from a small storage facility to one of the largest moving and storage companies on the East Coast has been sold after more than 50 years.

Admiral Moving and Storage, founded by Robert Milkie in 1963, sold its properties at 410, 420, 426 and 428 Ellington Road and 688 Sullivan Avenue last week for $5,442,100. The buyer is a newly-formed limited liability company named Admiral Holdings CT LLC, according to South Windsor property records.

A small sign in front of the property on Ellington Road simply reads, "We are now Storage Sense." Storage Sense is a national storage chain, now with 111 locations throughout the U.S. This is the company's first foray into Connecticut.

Inquiries from Patch via email and telephone have yet to be acknowledged.

Milkie truly ran a family business, involving his wife Marjorie and sons David and Mark. South Windsor property records indicate the first building at 420 Ellington Road, containing 17,760 square feet of space, was constructed in 1971. Shortly thereafter, the company's first of what became an annual ad in the South Windsor High School yearbook was published in the 1972 edition of The Centurion, as seen below.

Remarkable growth necessitated a second building of 24,000 square feet to be built in 1982, and a third building, consisting of 12,000 square feet, went up in 2000. Two storage unit buildings at 688 Sullivan Ave. were built in 1986, with two more added in 1988, according to town property records.

Robert Milkie passed away in 2011 at age 73.

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